“Corinna’s Going A-Maying”, a poem written by Robert Herrick, holds a pastoral setting. Eglesfield and John Williams published it in London in 1648. It reveals how Corinna is enticed by a youthful man who wants to take her to the festivity. The purpose of this project is to modernize “Corinna's Going A-Maying” for the new generation. The assay will focus on analyzing the setting that the poem is based on, in terms of the age or period and try to bring it to the modern setting.
Thus, the major theme of the poem is love and he is trying to awaken his girlfriend so that they can attend the May Day festivities together and the setting is the ancient period, which comprised of different cultural practices. He argues that it would be unwise to remain indoors on such occasions stating that other youngsters were enjoying themselves and many of them had found suitors during the May Day, which was specially meant for fun and nature celebration. The author further argues that one should live in the present and avoid worries of the future (Herrick 1). The ending of the poem shows that the festive is more than partying on May Day. The importance of attending local dances is also portrayed in the poem. The poem advocates new ways of life for instance, physical satisfaction and further illustrates the exposure of life in the present world. To modernize this, the author would have used modern means of communication to awake the girl instead of raising the alarm by calling out her name.
More so, the poem’s theme is to take pleasure in life when one has the time. The poet tries to wake Corinna’s by calling her repeatedly, showing how much he is interested in her. The thought that Corinna is asleep increases the author’s yearning to wake her up ...
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The author, unlike other known many poets tries to get a woman from the bed. The celebration of the entire village for the arrival of the spring is the best place for falling in love and getting down to trade. The author demonstrates that the May Day was simple and pure as it welcomed the fertility and warmth of spring after winter. He argues that people getting in on life cycle is not a sin, but rather an opportunity to enjoy one’s life. The author has based this poem on tradition, but as discussed above, the world has changed. The invention of technology has dramatically changed the living style in the modern world, giving the opportunity to use technological tools such as mobile phones and the web services to foster communication. The provision of better education has also enlightened people on better ways of courting and celebrating.
This essay is anchored on the goal of looking closer and scrutinizing the said poem. It is divided into subheadings for the discussion of the analysis of each of the poem’s stanzas.
The verbose use of imagery in this poem is really what makes everything flow in this poem. As this poem is written in open form, the imagery of this writing is what makes this poem poetic and stand out to you. Marisa de los Santos begins her poem with “Its here in a student’s journal, a blue confession in smudged, erasable ink: ‘I can’t stop hoping/ I’ll wake up, suddenly beautiful’” (1-3). Even from the first lines of this story you can already picture this young girl sitting at her desk, doodling on her college ruled paper. It automatically hooks you into the poem, delving deeper and deeper as she goes along. She entices you into reading more as she writes, daring you to imagine the most perfect woman in the world, “cobalt-eyed, hair puddling/ like cognac,” (5-6). This may not be the ideal image of every person, but from the inten...
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Robert Herrick’s poem “Corinna’s going a Maying” at its surface is a love poem from a young man to his lover asking her to come with him to celebrate the festival and activities that surround the famous May Day. But on a deeper examination of the poem’s core is a lesson about exploring and experiencing our days before they fly by “as fast away as do’s the Sunne”(61). Within the last stanza (lines 57-70) the apprehension towards time is used to persuade Corinna to experience life before it begins “decaying” like time always does (69).
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